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After four wins on Friday, the only win on Saturday came from Dunedin where Kendry and Yondrei Rojas combined for eight innings. Buffalo, New Hampshire and Vancouver lost.

Columbus 8 Buffalo 2

New Hampshire 2 Somerset 5

Hillsboro 7 Vancouver 1

Dunedin 5 Bradenton 2


This is what I noted from yesterday's games.


Thomas Hatch swings from good performances to bad ones. On Saturday Hatch was poor, six runs allowed in 4.2 innings.


Spencer Horwitz has been struggling recently and was given Friday off. He returned on Saturday to go 3-4 with a walk. Otto Lopez had one hit to extend his hit streak to 18 games.


Sem Robberse got off to a slow start, single, walk, home run and the Fisher Cats were down 3-0 before they had recorded an out. Robberse settled after that and went five innings just allowing one other hit. He picked up four strikeouts.


Just four hits for NH, one of them was a home run by Will Robertson.


Dahian Santos, like Robberse, is getting used to a new level and its not going well. In his second start it was another bad beginning. Two home runs led to four runs allowed in the first inning. The manager left him in the game and he had two baserunners in the second and two more in the third before being pulled. No more runs allowed though. He will have a few more starts to find out how to pitch to these high A hitters.


Vancouver's only run came in the sixth, Dasan Brown doubled and Rainer Nunez singled him in. Just six hits for the C's.


The train keeps rolling for the Dunedin Jays. They had eleven hits and five runs. A couple of draftees who have been slower to take off, John Kasevich and Alen Roden each had two hits. Jose Ferrer also had two hits and drove in two runs. The hottest hitters, Cade Doughty, Devonte Brown and Ryan McCarty had one hit each.


On the mound it was the Rojas show. Kendry started and struck out five in 3.2 shutout innings. Yondrei followed, went 4.1 innings, struck out six but did concede two runs.




Three Stars

Third Star - Kendry Rojas

Second Star - Spencer Horwitz

First Star - Jose Ferrer


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Gerry - Sunday, August 28 2022 @ 08:26 AM EDT (#420785) #

Keith Law saw a couple of New Hampshire games this week and wrote them up for the Athletic. I dont want to reproduce all of it but here is a summary/excerpt.

He threw three quick innings on Friday night at Somerset, but his stuff was down and his command was way off. Tiedemann topped out at 96 mph and was mostly 93-94 mph with a huge, sweepy slider at 78-81 mph that hitters couldn’t touch, as well as an 82-84 mph changeup that’s an above-average pitch when he finishes it properly, although he had several that got away from him.

Law does question Tiedemann's delivery and his choice to pitch from the extreme first base side. Law compares Tiedemann to Andrew Miller and wonders if he will end in relief. But he also would like to see Tiedemann try and pitch from the middle of the rubber.

Law didn't like much from Orelvis.

He’s a lot like Javy Báez was at that age … or, now, I guess … in that he has no apparent plan at the plate, and several times in the two games I saw it appeared that he’d decided whether to swing before the pitcher even released the ball.

On the positive side he was better at shortstop than he expected.

Law notes Addison Barger has had more success against RHP and says:

He’s not a shortstop, but could probably fill in there as a backup, and is most likely a strong utility infielder with some chance he could develop into a starter at third or second, or at least the heavy side of a platoon at either spot.

And he didn't like Adam Kloffenstein at all.

Kloffenstein has seen his stuff back up so much that at this point I don’t think he’s a prospect even as a reliever. He’s down to 90-91 mph without life or movement on the pitch, and has a fringy slider in the mid-80s, which explains his 6-plus ERA in Double A this year.

Mike Green - Sunday, August 28 2022 @ 12:58 PM EDT (#420795) #
It's interesting that Keith Law was pleasantly surprised by Orelvis' defence at shortstop.  If he can be a capable defensive shortstop, that changes the dynamic.

For fun, I checked on where Javier Baez was at age 20.  It turns out that he was in double A and hit .294/.346/.638, good for a 180 wRC+.  His W and K rates were a little better but comparable to Orelvis'.  But, he had a 32% HR/FB rate, and so had that pop came with a 45% ground ball rate and with his speed and ability to hit the ball hard, many of those ground balls ended up as base hits. 
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